as francois celebrates a military success in mali him we take a closer look at the possible complications the campaign could bring. egypt's military chief plus says his country is on the verge of collapse but the army will stand firm as protesters ignore curfews in another night of violence and to resume protests. and job president obama said to police chiefs of the u.s. cities a devastated by deadly mass shootings to support tougher gun control rules on maybe they're still defend their right to bear arms.

is a pm here in moscow you live with us on r.t.e. i'm to bomb with say president of france all not has hailed of france's military intervention in mali as a success the money mali an army has made big advances against islamist insurgents all with the assistance of french troops and early r.t.s. dumbarton as i told my colleague and he said now about the progress made so far and the problems that have come with it. campaign starts with french troops about two and a half weeks ago sweeping up from the center of the country up to with these these islamist held areas meeting very little resistance really they are they go on there was an incident here in cole no where in fact the french helicopter strike killed

some civilians apart from that though the french had been welcomed with with street parties and crowds coming out to greet the convoys as they arrived in each of these towns the islamist militants retreating not wanting to stand and fight many people thinking that they have been retreating further into the deserts in the north there's only one town of appreciable size left to capture after the fall of of timbuktu without nearly without a shot fired and then it seems that the next stage of the operation will be to try and hunt out islamist militants who have gone to hide in the desert and many observers think that it's possible a guerrilla war may result in the desert there after that there is also increased involvement from other countries and ecowas force of west african troops about seven thousand five hundred of them are coming into mali to take over some garrison duties and steadily take over the fighting role from the french there's

also been talk in brussels of e.u. troops being sent to train some of the local soldiers and the u.k. has announced it's going to send a small force but then other soldiers also to protect those those troops sent to train local soldiers as well and a new house was already involved as well and it was there was absolutely so far the u.s. has been sending aerial support it's been sending transport planes refueling planes it seems now though it's reported that the u.s. may be in negotiations with an easier next to mali over the possibility. all of a drone base there and those drones flying from near the border with mali could take part in these operations to try and hunt out islam is militants there there's also been talk of a u.s. base down in. to the south of mali the details of that not really

clear at the moment it is worth noting though. is very rich in natural resources oil gold you renia a lot of those exports go to france and the u.s. so we have talk of drones a u.s. base how far could this possibly spread. the question on many people's lips as the as the first phase of this operation winds up where are these militants going to go where is the violence going to go raising the fears that around the region this fighting as the militants are pushed out of the strongholds they've been in they could scatter all over the place and spread violence with them or it might be a fair argument then to say that the french might be getting a little bit ahead of themselves by claiming there's been a successful mission the u.k. government has announced is sending three hundred fifty non-combat military personnel to mali and west africa it's only two weeks after prime minister david cameron's pledge that no british army boots are would step on my list soil labor

m.p. jeremy colgan says it would have been better if the prime minister had kept his promises . david cameron is getting sucked into something i don't think he's seriously thought through two weeks ago we started offering transport planes to france we then sent force protection to back up the transport planes we sent trainers and we have additional force protection to protect them we then have surveillance aircraft going overhead and there are reports of u.k. special forces i think we've been dragged into this the danger is the more you send any troops in trainers over anything else just suppose something awful happens like one of the training groups is killed by what a term to be insurgent forces what then happens you then go after those groups who then have a greater british military involvement we may well be in for a quite a long term high tech surveillance and warfare being conducted by the french and

possibly with britain and others. against people that know the terrain very well and will be hidden by the local population this could be a very long and very nasty conflict. the head of egypt's army is warning that the country is on the verge of collapse after almost a week of violent unrest between the government and opposition militias earlier the cabinet pushed through alone giving the military the power of arrest of the president declared a state of emergency and curfews in three provinces this was ignored by protesters who took to the streets on mass across the country calling for regime change in cairo crowds continued to clash with security forces leaving clouds of burning debris in the streets there was no breakthrough in attempts at a compromise as the opposition ignored calls for a national dialogue by the president after midnight the co-founder of the council of trustees of the revolution in egypt says the military could be playing out its

own game behind. the surface interpretation of what's happening definitely there are groups who are willing to sabotage anything and try to embarrass the government specifically morsi and the military. on the surface however there are deeper interpretations of what's going on some of the interpretation goes as far as that the military council or the military is behind all of this so that big can have. the grip over the saudis canal and intensify their presence militarily over there probably we don't want to see an economic development of this specific strategic area because it would hand over to civilian oversight of the canal rather than military oversight of the canal according to the new constitution something called the national defense council this council in most countries and previously had an advisory stature right now it has more of an executive that has more military

members on board than civilians which outnumbers the civilians including the commander in chief the president which means they can force the president to take certain decisions which we have just seen in the past couple of days when they have the commander in chief see that he will declare martial law or emergency emergency law in those specific areas. and some news coming in from syria now activists and rebels are say the bodies of sixty five young men happened found on a bank of a river in and order in syria city of aleppo and must warn you that of us may find the following footage extremely disturbing most of them had their hands tied behind their backs with gunshot wounds to their head the bodies were covered in mud and showed signs of decay activists say more bodies could still be in the water at the moment there's no information on who carried out the killings.

meanwhile syria's rebel coalition is in paris to plead for aid and political backing to overthrow the assad regime the opposition needs money to stay viable but is efforts to form a provincial government have so far failed this is of france warns the islamic militants could gain ground and plunge the country into further chaos if cash flow is not secured r t caught up with one of the leaders of the opposition and asked him what he thinks is needed to bring peace to syria. we need this some new weapons against iran plays you know because bashar assad says. airplanes to damage villages and cities and the civilians we need to protect ourselves our children from killing every day we have more than sixteen thousand children were dead for at least twenty two months ago something

unbelievable it's a lot right so to help syrian people and to help and syrian crisis you need weapons and money is that is that correct yeah sure sure and we need political support also who can cooperate with a man killed more than sixty thousand people we are concerned but we are not afraid you know because of the majority of fighter groups in syria is not extremist is not dearest only fighting for the freedom and dignity and what a loss of a group from iraq are these people fighting for freedom and democracy as well they're fighting for freedom and democracy but maybe we will face some problem with them anyway they are just a smaller part of their evolution is you. but these people are recognized

even by french president as extremists and terrorists all over the word you can find extremists but they're not they're your picture only a small part of it please recall denies that. so you are absolutely sure that you will be able to control them these people you're very sure very sure about that. well the opposition adamant extremists make up only a small fraction of the armed rebels and will be easy to control is our in general honda isn't buying into that scenario we are reassured by your guest that if the if the dissidents come to power they'll be able to handle elements for fraud but there will be an dissidents at the same play when they were with nato in two thousand and eleven and toppling colonel gadhafi now they're seeking to do the same thing in syria which suggests that they have nothing learnt even the most recent

lessons of history now we see that in been ghazi which was the cradle of the revolt against gadhafi the north atlantic countries have asked their nationals to sleep in ghazi because resumed impending terrorist attacks watched by those they just hoping to power so i think we should take it with a grain of salt what your guest said in that interview they're putting civilians in harm's way by wanting attacks from crowded urban communities i was also struck by the fact that your guest said that he would not be involved in any negotiation with the assad regime the way wars in is the true negotiate with those who are shooting at him and that is how this war should end but if they refuse to negotiate that tends to suggest that this conflict will continue indefinitely. the u.s. senate panel of present john kerry as the next secretary of state and the nation's

top diplomat prepares to take up the job we ask how different will he be on his predecessor as official break. wealthy british style. tirelessly. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report.

you're watching our t.v. from amo school headquarters president barack obama has met with police seized from cities in the u.s. where mass shootings have occurred he wants of this support for view of the country's gun control policy obama's proposal of tougher gun regulations and a ban on assault weapons has divided public opinion with many standing by the constitution's a second amendment the right to bear arms m t's grand she can reports the white house proposals to regulate gun sales there are a wave of protest among those who believe the second amendment of the constitution is in danger as are amendments that there are a right to arms it is a god given right to the sanctity of the second amendment meet heated national

debate someone makers of even threaten to impeach the president to protect the constitution we're going to use every tool possible to fight in the ministration which wants to ever get the constitution but do u.s. lawmakers feel strongly about all amendments of that same constitution last month congress seamlessly without much ado passed legislation which gives the government sweeping powers to eavesdrop on communications and review e-mails of anyone they want it's called the foreign intelligence surveillance act the president amendments act completely is an infringement on your fourth amendment right against unlawful search and seizure and basically does away with the probable cause requirement there's been no national debate on the fourth amendment the mainstream media have been mute on the subject so to score it now as people don't even know about it if you're really savvy and you read a lot of online media you might have heard about pfizer being reauthorized

otherwise you're just totally unaware of it and how can you have an opinion on something that you're unaware of that proved to be true as we went out to ask people whether they knew what feisal was than what it could do to. there are fourth amendment rights have you heard about feisal no. no no sorry i think i have some idea that it has to do with our taxes but i don't really know but not surprisingly the same people that have opinions on gun control to keep our guns were pretty pro-gun control right now the government spying bill is not the only legislation that sneaked under the radar of public debate indefinite detention of americans without trial made legal is seen by many lawyers as a blatant violation of the fifth amendment which guarantees due process that was something that should have been discussed in the presidential debates and people were begging the moderators to mention this it was never mentioned it was just not a part of the debates the constitution may be sacred to many in the us but it seems in washington to bypass it it's enough to say to magic words national security the

deal is pass these bills i feel like all that has to happen is literally like dianne feinstein waves a letter and says national security and the fear mongering begins and shuts down any kind of debate yet we're having a freewheeling debate on guns some argue it's money that keeps the gun debate at the forefront the national rifle association reportedly spent around twenty four million dollars on congressional elections last year and even more on lobbying to an extent when even as the majority of americans as polls show support some regulation on guns gun is those yes believe no substantive legislation will be passed by the congress he is not going to be able to get anything through congress so i think that the second amendment will be ok the media in the us essentially broke into two camps each bringing all kinds of arguments against the other both

sides again and again reading into the text of the second amendment or doing what proposal would or would not be infringe on the people's rights as nasty as they get sometimes but that's what a national debate should look like but one can't help asking where was that big that heated debate when other liberties were at stake in washington i'm going to check out. the u.s. senate foreign relations committee has approved president obama's nomination of john kerry as the next secretary of state was chosen to succeed hillary clinton who is stepping down after four years in the job politics and international studies professor stephen azuz a believes that john kerry is likely to be very much all school in his approach. here is an outspoken supporter of the iraq war and not only being among the no right wing minority of democrats on capitol hill that both authorize the war but. not only. making up least danceable john sayles about mass and biological and chemical weapons stockpiles and nuclear program i'm

going to resist us here live resource terms like are going by your own it was clear that that was all drawn right there had no so-called weapons of mass destruction you said you were the motive for the war anyway because saddam hussein was a terrible dictator and they have the capacity of making those kind of weapon some time eventually of course by that criteria they're going to thirty countries really start hearing resumes that are having the privilege of building unconventional weapons and kerry was essentially taking real concerted lie that hey we have a right you know adelaide and he is putting aside the moral and legal arguments no iraq was your centuries ago and now in libya we're seeing all those consequences in terms of two hundred thousand men under arms. and these militias are controlled by the government you see the fault of somalia to algeria elsewhere as a sales target shortsightedness that we we've seen so many other politicians

marching to. on our website all right now while people van today i got many cuts of greece's finance ministers has painted a bright future for the country i know that the source of his optimism and r t. a rise in landmark is about to get a facelift is a luxury fashion brand is ready to pull one millions its restoration going lightly the. rich in which was once proud of having some of the maize effective legislation in the world to fend of homelessness now has a fifty thousand people sleeping rough and with the government uttering in public sector spending cuts in an attempt to battle the country's financial troubles the number of homeless people is only expected to rise i g.'s pretty boy who went to meet some of those living on the streets. it's freezing cold wet

and hungry there's no way feed to go to dry off and no money in your pockets this street is all you've got and there's no one that will help you welcome to birmingham the case capital homelessness. remember right. in there she said drop grandma don't have one. foot out i mean you shouldn't be home or there's a lot of people who called me a short time wondered me real rock carpark were people really. all over the place this is why guard. there you have yet to read you know. michael is by no means alone in fact the number of homeless people in britain has skyrocketed by twenty five percent since twenty ten reaching fifty thousand people in twenty twelve the biggest spike in the city of birmingham you don't think again

people can see you could be walking past you can be sleeping next to warsaw. and the coldness is stupid specially this time we have to go back for four days listen to it's twenty one year old much fled his family home where he came to blows with his stepfather he had to sleep rough before being granted emergency shelter in a bombing in hostile it's run by a charity that helps anyone down and out to find employment and get back on their feet looking for work and on the don't know like no job or if the moment trying to get it started you'll second stay at the hostel in three years after growing up in the now to foster care he struggled to keep a roof over his head you've got to do what every types to find somewhere to sleep find money. help and support scariest thing like you know you still go face

all over again there just isn't enough low cost housing available and with unemployment rising hostels just like this one desperately need to expand the figures from the local authority of people presented as homeless having creased on average by about four hundred percent. for the growing homeless community squatting in one of the city's twelve thousand empty homes used to be an option anymore just before the winter set in westminster upgraded sporting from a civil matter to a criminal offense. to more rough sleepers on the streets came true there are a lot of deprived areas in birmingham that a lot of people that don't have working been given i suppose with it being such a one time in industrialised center the working class families but those jobs just don't exist anymore so i suppose that the poverty is just sort of breaking for the poverty and the reason the reason big mix of paper in the population is expanding

the housing stock is and you know it's reached the point where it's just spilling over and can't cope anymore and with more government budget cuts kicking enough to rate prole many more persons are predicted to slip through the net as the housing crisis escalates probably boyko r t. twenty people have been reportedly killed in a plane crash in kazakstan the plane carrying five crew and these fifteen passengers went down near the city of our marty in the country south after one pm local time. survivors challenger two hundred operated by has a company scant was on an internal flight and crashed while trying to land in harsh weather conditions investigators have recovered the plane's flight recorders and are now examining the daytime. now to some other world news this hour.

the side bomber has no use all floppy inside somalia is presidential palace in mogadishu killing two people and injuring three others the attacker detonated his explosives outside the main gate of the residence after being stopped by guards for questioning the president who was out of the country at the time of the attack. in belgium police have dispersed thousands of protesting steel workers with tear gas and water cannons several people were injured in the clashes the protester was against plan plant closures which could lead to the loss of thirteen hundred jobs a firm which annals of the plants along with other steel companies face a lack of demand for steel and iron all this is potentially another blow for belgian workers after the recent announcement that a for profit tree will shut down. up next big macs and stacy expose the doll secrets and the world of global finance.

fiasco actually caused a fiasco by singing a song highly critical of president obama ironically at a concert in honor of his second inauguration according to the huffington post he was thrown off stage by security for insulting the dear leader the sounds really bad like something out of one thousand nine hundred four were thugs come out of nowhere the second you say something out of line about the party. to the song loop it was sunny had been going on for thirty minutes at that point this rant was more like a hip hop filibuster stopping the whole show and dragging on and on and on the so i think security just wanted to silence him in general not silence his anti obama

opinions so you know next time when you want to bring up obama's drone usage or total disregard for the constitution then keep it under three minutes everything will be just fine but that's just my opinion. welcome to the kaiser report on max kaiser the end of the currency war is near you can tell because the japanese special currency attack units are being deployed yes to tom a cause it turns to traders aka the comic characters in order to the front line of the currency war stacey max yes you know that this currency war is raging as the u.s. dollar collapses and the latest big step of course has been germany asking for their

gold back their brush on sweden netherlands austria everybody's looking for their gold where the heck is our gold well over there they were famous for their kamikazes especially from one thousand nine hundred four the end of the war revolutionary japan is suddenly the center of world affairs so japan may not slide into genteel oblivion after all to the surprise of the japanese people their country is smack in the middle of two riveting dramas that threaten to upturn the global strategic landscape in short order of course we see the conflict the hot war build between japan and china but the majority of this piece is about their all out monetary war but now fiscal war and. the new prime minister is basically getting rid of the bank of japan independence because he's saying that there.